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To the Editors of The Crimson:
Tableau: American Literature, personified, in a balcony. English Department, up a tree. Night. Am. Lit.: 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not an "English Department."
What's "English"? It is nor page, nor title, Nor index, nor contents, nor any other part Belonging to a book. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? That which was called the English Department,
By another name, will smell more sweet.
English Department, doff thy name;
And for that name, which is no part of thee, Take all myself.
Engl. Dept.: I take thee at they word.
Call me but "The Department of English and American Language and Literature,"
And I'll be new baptiz'd. William Bard '74
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